A chessboard is a gameboard used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in shape and uses two colours of squares, one light and one dark, in a chequered pattern. During play, the board is oriented such that each player's near-right corner square is a light square.
A wooden chessboard with Staunton pieces
Chessboards during a match of Bughouse
Spatial position of the boards in Raumschach
Illustration from the book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, where the chessboard is represented by fields and brooks that Alice must traverse
This glossary of board games explains commonly used terms in board games, in alphabetical order. For a list of board games, see List of board games; for terms specific to chess, see Glossary of chess; for terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems.
Equipment for Ludo: four Ludo pieces, a die, a dice cup, a Ludo board
Wooden meeples from the board game Carcassonne
Simple wooden pawn-style playing pieces, often called Halma pawns